Table of Contents

About-Face - Sir David Wilkie's Portrait of "Mehemet Ali" Carl Haag 1820-1915: Fact or Fantasy?; John Frederick Lewis - "In Knowledge of the Orientals Quite One of Themselves" William Holman Hunt's Visits to Egypt - Passion, Prejudice and Truth to Nature; David Urquhart and the Role of Travel Literature in the Introduction of Turkish Baths to Victorian England; J. Wolff and H. Stern - Missionaries in Yemen; The Copts of Egypt: Neither Christian nor Egyptian?; Gender Politics in a Colonial Context: Victorian Women's Accounts of Egypt; The Image of Nineteenth-Century Cairo as a Medieval City in Kinglake's Ethen "While I was in Egypt , I finished Dr. Thorne" On Translating The Englishwoman in Egypt into Arabic; Amelia Edwards - From Novelist to Egyptologist; Amelia Edwards, Jennie Lane and Egypt; Oriental Motifs in the Poetry of Nikolay Gumilev' Ah! That the Desert were my Dwelling Place": The Romance of Persia in the Early Writings of Gerturde Bell; Orientalism and Gender - The Condition and Status of Women in Morocco.

About the Author

Paul Starkey studied Arabic and Persian at Oxford and now teaches at the University of Durham. He is the author of From the Ivory Tower: A Critical Study of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1987) and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (1988). Janet Starkey studied social anthropology in Edinburgh and London and now teaches material culture at the University of Durham. She has worked extensively in the museum field, and is particularly interested in the ethnography of Egypt and Sudan